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WATER ACTION MAY HINGE ON INTEREST RATE

City and Geist Estate Reported in Tentative Agreement.

DEADLOCK IS BROKEN

Public Hearings Likely Next

Week on New Proposal.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM City officials were reported tentatively agreed today on municipal purchase of the Indianapolis Water Co., providing bonds can be issued at a low interest rate. The tentative decision resulted from the C. H. Geist Estate agreeing to slash approximately half a million dollars from its $5.000.000 asking price for the common stock. Whether a final decision to buy is reached depends almost entirely, it

was understood, on whether Bont

for the purchase can be floated at an interest rate somewhere near 2! per cent.

Seek Brokers’ Advice

Opinions of leading bond brokers fn Chicago and New York on the likely interest vate at which the bonds could be sold are being sought by the officials. Meanwhile, preparations were be- |

VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 108

Shakespeare Is ‘Flop’ at World's Fair

NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.).—Shakespeare has flopped in the World of Tomorrow. Because of poor business and the demands of the Actors’ Equity Association for overtime pay for the 27 actors, the Globe Theater at the World's Fair, which presents four “streamlined” Shakespearian comedies, will close after tonight's show. The theater played to more than 400,000 persons at the Chicago World's Fair.

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RAIN TO CHECK, SUNDAY'S HEAT

Cloudiness and Showers Will Avert Threatened Torrid Wave.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Gam ...68 10am ... 14 TA. MM ...67 lawm ...7 Sam ... 69 12 (noon).. 7 9am ... 70 1pm ... 78 Cloudiness and thundershowers

this afternoon or tonight will check a new heat wave which the Weather Bureau had expected to begin about tomorrow. Temperatures today and tonight will remain moderate, U. S. Meteor-

FRIEND KILLED IN AUTO TEST, DRIVER IS HELD

South Side Mechanic Dies As Careening Machine Tosses Him Out.

COUNTY TOLL NOW AT 48

Indianapolis Man Victim in Collision of Cars at Bloomington.

The Marion County traffic toll for 1939 stood at 48 with the death early today of a South Side mechanic after a crash on Road 135 near the Big Hill Cemetery, south of Indianapolis. The driver of the car was held on a reckless homicide charge, State Police invoking for the first time a new law, effective July 1, providing for a specific charge in connection with traffic deaths. The victim was Garold B. Ludwig, 38, of 1330 Naomi St, a passenger in an auto which State Police charge was drivén by Roland Dale Landis, 33, of R. R. 10, Box 173.

Killed at Bleomington

Clarence Davidson, 47, of 925 Greer St. died at Bloomington of injuries received when his auto-

SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1939

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MINNEAPOLIS ASKS TROOPS

mobile collided with another driven by John Stillion on Road 37 between

ing made for a series of public meet- |ologist J. H. Armington said, but a Bloomington and Bedford.

ings, starting probably late next |

week, at which details of the pro-|

rise can be expected tomorrow afternoon. He said, however, that

Mr. Davidson was a maintenance man for the Climax Machinery Co.

posed saie of the company to the temperatures would not be excep- 143 E. Morris St, where he had been |

City are to be explained fully. The fact that the price of the]

common stock had been slashed | the Great Lakes area dipped the daughter, Mrs. Helen Germain.

was announced by Mayor Sullivan) after a four-hour terdav between the City members of the Mayor's subcommittee, and C. W. McNear, representing the C. H. Geist estate, | which owns the common stock. The Mayor did not announce the new

officials. citizens

price. The estate's price cut broke the deadlock which resulted 10 days ago when it announced, through

Mr. McNear, that not a cent less than $5.000.000 would be accepted. Mayor Sullivan at that time announced the City was not interested in the stock at $5,000,000.

$3,500,000 Called Justified

Judson Dickerman, Federal Trade Commission utility engineer borrowed by the City to make an ap-| praisal of the property, previously had advised that the City would be justified in paying $3,500,000 for the stock, but he added that an even higher price might be justified in view of the benefits to be derived | from municipal ownership. His estimate of what the City could afford to pay for the company was based on the City issuing | revenue bonds at 3 per cent. { Since then. the City has been ad- | vised that the bonds probably can | be sold for 2.75 per cent interest | and possibly as low as 2's per cent. | During vesterdav's conference, the | City officials were advised that if | the bonds ran he cold for as little | as 2': per cent interest, it would be] more profitable for the City to buy| the stock at roughlv $4.500.000 than| it would he to pav $2.500,000 with a! 3 per cent interest rate, considering | the interest saving. The new price for the common] tock, together with $18.438.400] which would be required to retire the outstanding bonds and pre-| ferred stock against the present company, would bring the total purchase price to $22.938.400. Quick Assels Available In view of the fact that in taking over the company, the City would acquire a guaranteed $1,550.000 in quick assets

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. | (two-thirds cash and]

Government notes), the net cost FORMER PUERTO RICO

would be reduced to $25,388.400. This | is mor2 than six million dollars wa | der the $26,500.000 value which the estate hinted at when the negotiations were started. The total bond issue would be increased by several factors. Mr. Dickerman has recommended that £2.000,000 be included in the issue) for development of the Oaklandon | Reservoir and for additional sand! filters at the Fall Creek Station. He| also has recommended $360,000 to be! used as working capital. In order to call in the outstanding 315 per cent bonds of the utility be-| fore their maturity, the City would | have to pay a call premium, adding}

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CARL G. FISHER ILL | IN FLORIDA HOSPITAL

MIAMI BEACH. Fla, July 15 (U.| P.) .—Carl G. Fisher, formerly of Indianapolis, prominent figure in the! automobile industry and credited | with visualizing and developing] Miami Beach as a winter resort, was] seriously ill in St. Francis Hospital today. Mr. Fisher, 65, was taken to the!

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suffering |

hospital yesterday after a gastric hemorrhage.

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tionally excessive. As cool breezes from Canada and mercury, another death due to Indiana. Anton Puchly, 35, died at East Chicago from a hemorrhage believed caused by the heat. The cloudiness is sweeping in from the Mississppi Valley and the heaviest thunder showers can he expected in southern Indiana, Mr. Armington said. Yesterday's high was 87 at 3 p. mm, Today's low was 63 at 5 a. m,

STATE'S SURPLUS S OFF 10 MILLION

$14,757,226 on Hand, Drop |

Laid to 1938 Grants.

The State had a cash surplus of, $14,757,226 in its treasury at the close of the fiscal year June 30, compared

to $24.557,947 a year ago, according

to the State Auditor's annual report on file in the Governor's office today. The 10-million-doller cut in the State's surplus was caused by the extra appropriations passed by the | 1938 special session of the Legisia-| ture, the Governor's office explained. The 1938 special session appropriations totaled about 16 million dollars, part of which was to finance the State's two-year building program and to pay increased costs of State Welfare Department benefits. The State Budget Committee has estimated that further payments on the building program during the present fiscal year will cut the surplus to about $6,602,000 and that by June 30, 1941, most of the balance will have been wiped out. The auditor's report showed that! expenditures during the last fiscal year totaled $144.723545 and that total receipts, including Federal Government allotments, were $141,354,276.

GOVERNOR INDICTED

KANSAS CITY, July 15 (U. P). —The Jackson County Grand Jury today indicted E. Mont Reily, for-

mer Governor of Puerto Rico and hissing sound caused most of them

once circles. His activities as a unit in the hoss

high in Republican Party

{employed for four years. Survivors include his wife, Nora, and a step-| | { In the Marion County accident,

control of the car on a curve. As it | swerved back toward the road, Mr. | Ludwig was hurled out of the car | against a utility pole, fracturing his | skull. The alto careened to the left | side of the road, turned over several times and crashed through the cemetery fence, The driver remained in the car during its wild dash. but escaped with small cuts on his left wrist and chin.

Four Children Injured

Both men were employed at Fade-ly-Anderson, Inc. 3759 N. Illinois St, and were close friends. Relatives said that they were testing the Landis car which he had tepaired preparatory to leaving on] a vacation. Mr. Ludwig is survived by his wife, Anna M.; a daughter, Rosalyn, a dancing instructor at the Hoosier Athletic Club; a son, Garold Jr, and a sister, Mrs. Bernice Eckstein. Four children, including two bicycle riders, were among 11 injured in 24 other overnight traffic accidents. Jack Myers, 15, of R. R. 6, Box 327, was brought to City Hospital after his bicycle collided with an auto driven by Eugene Swope, 22, of Mooresville, on Road 37 south of Southport. Hospital attendants said he is suffering with a brain concussion and scalp lacerations. Another cyclist, John Oberholtzer, 13, of 2531 Broadway. was at St. Vincent's Hospital after he was knocked from his bicycle by an automobile on College Ave., 2500 block. Mrs. Mattie McMath, 70, of 3548 E. 10th St, was injured when an auto driven by her husband, James. and one driven by Gladys Carmichael, 39, of 515 N. Chester Ave. (Continued on Page Three)

THREE DECAPITATED | IN VERMONT BLAST

COLCHESTER, Vt. July 15 (U. | P)—Two men and a girl were| struck and killed by a water tank] which shot through the air last, night following an explosion in a small shack at the Champlain Country Club. The trio, accompanied by several | {other persons, was approaching the shack, which was afire, when a

‘to leap behind trees. The three vic- | tims failed to act fast enough and the top of their heads were sheared

EXPECTS DECISION SOON ON GREENLEE

Mayor Says ‘Open Revolt’ Makes Federal Action Necessary.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 15 (U. P). —Mayor George Leach said today

conference yves-| Thursday's heat was recorded in| Mr, Landis, State Police said, 10st| he would make an immediate re-

quest for regular U. S. Army troops from Ft. Snelling if further rioting

occurs among Minneapolis WPA strikers. Alarmed by the death of one

man and wounding of 20 in a battle between police and strikers last night, Mayor Leach telegraphed appeals to Attorney-General Frank Murphy and WPA Commissioner F. C. Harrington in Washington, and conferred with the commandant at Ft. Snelling, Brig. Gen. Campbell H. Hodges. Further disturbance seemed unlikely because Linus C. Glotzbach, State WPA administrator, announced most projects would not reopen Monday. They were closed today for the week-end.

Talks With General

In Washington Col. Harrington gave his full approval to Mr. Glotzbach's action but said he had not yet received Mayor Leach's telegram. At noon, Mr. Murphy also said he received no telegram from Mayor Leach. After conferring with Hodges, Leach announced: “I am prepared to ask Governor Stassen to request from President (Continued on Page Three)

Gen.

Minton Hears White House Is Making Routine Check.

Times Specinl WASHINGTON, July 15.—Senator Minton (D.-Ind) was informed by the White House today that a

“reutine investigation” is being made of Pleas Greenlee, who has

| been recommended by both Indiana

Senators for Internal Revenue Collector at Indianapolis. The results will be known next week and Senator Minton then will be informed whether President Roosevelt will appoint Mr. Greenlee to succeed Will Smith, the Senator was told. Two weeks ago the Treasury announced that Mr. Greenlee wasn't even being investigated since ‘no vacancy exists.” Both Secretary Treasury Morgen-

Tom Pendergast Democratic ma-|off by the flying tank. At the time|thau and Guy T. Helvering. Com-

chine, led to the investigation of

|City payroll padding which cul-'sg

minated in his indictment. The jury returned 14 indictments against him charging forgery of indorsements on city payroll checks which were drawn in favor of men who never worked for the City.

[they were about 50 feet from the] hack, which was behind one of the club's cottages. The dead were 10-year-old Marylin Kelley, Edward T. Thornton, 40, {assistant treasurer of the Chittendon County Trust Co., and T. Russell Brown, 50, all of Burlington,

missioner of Internal Revenue, are said to have rated Mr. Smith as among the top collectors in the country. But Senator VanNuys (D.-Ind). who had him appointed. now wants him out, and Senator Minton wants Mr. Greenlee appointed.

I Killed, 20 Hurt in Relief Strike Riot

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

19 DEAD,

at Postoffice,

COR UAL anal

Police use tear gas to protect womem WPA workers as strikers charge.

Lynn Thompson, 13, one of the injured, at the h

Times-Acme Teleplhotos, ospital with his father.

The Coast Guard said that the plane crashed while attempting a

| takeoff after removing an ill seaman (from the S. S. Atlantis, an oceano-

graphic vessel from Woods Hole, Mass. The accident occurred about 150 miles southeast of New York City about 11:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). The plane had been sent to the Atlantis to rush the man, identified only as “Priest,” to New York for emergency medical attention for pneumonia. The plane sank almost immediately, the Coast Guard said. and “Priest,” the pilot, Lieut. W. L. Clemmer, and an assistant, John Radan, went down with it. None of the bodies had been recovered half an hour after the accident. Five other members of the plane's crew were reported to have been saved and taken aboard the Atlantis. Mackay Radio reported that two members of the crew, named Hayes and Evers, ‘apparently suffered broken backs.” Three other crew members, whose last names, were given as Simon, Salters and Whalen, were reported by the Mackay Radio to be uninJjured.

3 Die as Plane Dives Into Sea on Errand of Mercy

Coast Guard Craft Plunges After Removing Ill Sailor From S. S. Atlantis, 150 Miles Off N. Y.

NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.).—Coast Guard headquarters said today that the Coast Guard airplane, V-164, crashed in the Atlantic while fon a mercy flight and that three men were killed.

2D SQUALUS SINKING MAKES J0B HARDER

. .’ said. Divers Find Snarled Mass “Apparently Mr.

Of Wires Left by Sub.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H. July 15 (U. P.).—Salvagers feared today that the secona attempt to" raise the sunken submarine Squalus and its 26 dead may take even longer than the seven weeks required for the first. The two divers who descended yesterday dropped only a short distance beneath the surface before they encountered a snarled jumble of cables, wires, hawsers and air lines left by the Squalus when it suddenly reared while being raised Thursday and plunged back to the bottom. This indicated that nearly threequarters of the 14,000 feet of air hose connected to the submarine would have to be hauled back on the Navy tug Falcon and unsnarled before it can be used again.

‘Girls in High Life on Hellish Brink,’ Says Michigan Governor, 80

LANSING, Mich., July 15 (U. P). —Luren 1. Dickinson, Michigan's 80-year-old Governor, who also is a Sunday School teacher and prominent prohibitionist, was so shocked by tony social functions in the East that today he warned “mothers and daughters” of the “hellish brink” of “high life.” Governor Dickinson attended the annual Conference of Governors in | Albany, N. Y, in June. He and {the other Governors were enter- | tained in Albany, Saratoga Springs, | West Point, New York City, and at | President Roosevelt's estate at | Hyde Park. He excepted the func-

statement, he said, to warn) “mothers and daughters of the dangerous proximity to a hellish brink for unprotected girls in anything smattering of high life and that until conditions change, liquor will play the prominent part.” After speaking of “the gorgeous banquet” in Albany, at which Governorr Lehman of New York was host, and of the dinner of “dazzling brilliancy” in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City at which Mayor La Guardia was host, Governor Dickinson said: “When and where in the country could one duplicate such a set up? |

Participation elicited extravagant

(expressions. Young people, especially girls, of which they were | many, made ineffectual efforts to]

describe the giowing, dreamy eddy- | ing through the four days in the] highest brackets of social contact. “I would not detract from this] youthful picture, but there is another setting to which these young minds are utterly oblivious. This

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6. 7|uniform—having been a procurer. is the setting that makes these prev of social brutes. . . .

\life systems and customs, bewilder- | watch. ing scenery and surroundings, being | ing to face. paired with or alone with strangers| What aches of mind! at glowing public functions with | measured fully the

I knew what they were goWhat a responsibility! But I hadn't new liberties

unlimited flow of every variety of | under repeal.”

liquor at every turn, with dance

halls and drinking tables on the| to cases.

side, richly dressed and sweetvoiced hosts and uniformed waiters

Governor Dickinson then got down The described two incidents. “Less than 10 feet from one of

repeatedly urging visitors of every our party was a charming little girl age, including these girls. to drink: in her sweet innocency by high life

—thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were.” Governor Dickinson was accompanied to the conference by his grand-daughter and his secretary. He said the conference entertainments were attended “in the main” by high grade citizens. “But none could eliminate or could keep out all the leeches when swarms from outside were trying to climb in.” “Any mother who permits her girl to attend such functions should demand iron-clad protection,” he continued. “Girls from 15 to 25 were there. We had two in our party.

. Never would have I permitted either young girls at such functions the; “Fascinations, brilliance, high- to have gone without constant

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rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at

home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee, she unfolded plans made to pair with them at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take her through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return.

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PRICE THREE CENTS

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Group Soon, but

WOMEN WAIL AT

3 SAFE, LOST IN

MINE EXPLOSION

Kentucky Rescuers Expected to Reach Last

Delay in Report

Causes Apprehension at Top.

NEWS OF DEATHS

31 Entombed Men Report Plight by Phone as Six Escape to Surface, Then Phone | Becomes Silent.

PROVIDENCE, Ky., July 15 (U. P.).—Rescue squads

have found 19 dead in the gas-laden galleries of the Ruchman coal mine where 31 miners were entombed by a dust explosion, F. V. Ruchman, one of the owners announced

today.

reach the other nine to deter or alive. was unlikely to penetrate.

END TO BUILDING DISPUTE SOUGHT

Labor Commissioner Rebukes Hutcheson in 6-Day Coliseum Strike.

Efforts to end the six-day strike at the Coliseum were being made today as William L. Hutcheson, Carpenters international president, received a scathing rebuke from

State Labor Commissioner Thomas R. Hutson. Mr. Hutcheson. head of the powerful A. F. of L. affiliate, was termed “arbitrary and arrogant” in a statement by Mr. Hutson.

Contractors’ Group Meets

Attempts to end the dispute meanwhile were being made by the Indianapolis Contractors Association in a meeting called today to discuss means of breaking tHe deadlock. Work on the $1,600,000 structure, which was to have been completed in time for the State Fair, has been stopped, according to the J. L. Simmons Co., contractors for the building Company representatives were to attend the meeting. W. B. Mohler, manager of the Simmons Co., said that it now was “practically impossible” to finish the Coliseum in time for the Fair.

Raps Hutcheson Action

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The action of Mr. Hutcheson. in connection with the strike was termed a “direct affront to the people of Indiana” by Mr. Hutson. | Mr. Hutcheson called a strike of |

jurisdictional dispute | erection of | at Broad Mr. Hutson

cause of a with plasterers over accoustical equipment Ripple High School,

Hutcheson beieves he is bigger than the State of Indiana and its 3,500,000 people who are vitally interested in the State Fair,” Mr. Hutson stated. “The Coliseum represents an investment of $1,143,000 of Federal and State funds and work for 250 craftsmen. Mr. Hutcheson’s arbi(Continued on Page Three)

3 LOCAL TRAINMEN INJURED IN WRECK

Light Engine Rams Rear of

Freight in Ohio.

Three Indianapolis trainmen were injured today when a light engine rammed into the rear of a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad freight train at Donald, O., nzar Oxford, O. They were taken to a Hamilton, O., hospital. The injured were Roscoe H. Riley, 51, of 1403 E. Vermont, St.: John H. Plumber. 62, of 402 Congress Ave. and J. E. Messick, 64, of 3911 English Ave. B. & O. officials here said the extent of their injuries had not been determined, but they were not believed to be serious. The freight train, bound from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, . was stopped because of a hot box. The light engine pulled up from the rear and rammed one of two cabooses on the freight, derailing both. Railroad officials here said that. signals in that area are automatic, but they were not certain why the engine did not stop. Mr. Riley, riding on the front of the engine was hurt when he jumped. Mr. Plumber was in the tail-end caboose and Mr. Messick was in the other caboose.

STOCKS HOLD STEADY NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.).—

. . But what of the thoughts g,;¢ outnumbered bears in the

of that mother far away, with that | ciao market today, but traders little bundle of unsullied purity,| paintained a cautious stand because away from those expected to PIro-|a,¢ the international situation and, tect her, tripping through the sin- changes in the list were fractional.

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' Gains, however, outnumbered losses.

Three were rescued early today and squads labored to

mine whether they were dead

They were in a section where it was believed gas

Mine officials identified the known dead as: Bob Mayes,

|Bernard Barnes, Richard

Byron, Ira Campbell, Randell

Green, Earl Woodring, George Clark, D. B. Barnes, Lee Mitchell, Dan Byron, Forrest Dunbar, Ellis Chandler, Hobart Williams, Ned Fugate, James Gather, George Spring(field, Arthur Little, Carl 'Holoman and David Ivy. Still missing were: Arch Gold, Ruddel Little, C. Wallace, Sikis Boyd, Clyde Coll, Elmer Gales, Gordon Hodges, Wanda Williams {and Allen Chambers. Black Damp Delays Rescuers W. Fred Hume, secretary of the coal company, estimated rescuers soon would reach the nine still entombed. Workers had te pro-< ceed slowly until blasts of fresh air could be pumped into mine chambers to clear out black damp and other deadly accumulations of gases. Mine officials made no announcement of finding the bodies to the crowd of 400 or 500 collected about the mine tipple. As rain began to fall, many sought shelter in the small sheet metal equipment shacks. Hysteria seized the crowd momentarily when an unidentified woman overheard a remark from one official to another that bodies had been discovered. Delay Worries Officials “They're all dead!” the woman screamed, and her cries were echoed by those who had been standing quietly about the shaft entrance. The woman was led away but the word spread and the women set up a loud wailing. Meanwhile, officials in the mine ' office began to worry slightly when they did not hear from the rescue crews for about two hours. They judged that rescue workers were only about 15 minutes distant from

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72 carpenters at the Coliseum be- | the remaining men who may be alive

and could not understand the delay. However, they pointed out that telephone connections from deep in | the shaft to the mine office might | have been disrupted, or that they | might be bringing the men out {gradually and no cause for alarm | was expressed immediately. Cause of Death Unknown James Fugate, one of the rescue party, last reported when he phoned to the office the death of the 19 miners and said that he was going ahead to locate the others. No attempt was made to bring up the bodies immediately. Mr. Fugate did not say whether they were burned, suffocated or crushed by the concussion of the explosion when he talked to Mr. Hume. The 31 men were trapped by a dust explosion last night which closed the tunnel 181 feet below the surface with a wall of stone and ldirt. Six other men working in the tunnel escaped to the surface. William Reynolds, who had been working near the shaft {ar removed from the explosion, also came up

unassisted. Two of those rescued, Ernst Johnson and Douglas Cates, had been caught beneath the fallen

debris and were injured. The other, Dennis Walker, was not hurt. Report Condition by Phone The blast occurred about two miles from the bottom eof the shaft. The nine still missing had been working about 100 feet beyond the point of the explosion. They reported their plight to surface crews on the mine telephone. Then the telephone went out. State Mine Inspector John Daniels rushed here from Lexington to direct the rescue crews, gathered from mines here and at Earlington, Sebree, Madisonville and St. Charles. Charles O. Herbert, supervising engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Mines at Vincennes, Ind. 100 miles north, was on the way here with a truckload of mine rescue equipment. The single road leading from Providence to the mine one mile away was closed to all except ambulance and rescue traffic, but relatives of the trapped men and about 2000 townspeople stood around the mine head all night. The blast occurred at about 7:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), four and a half hours after the night shift had reported for work. ¢ James Gold, surface foreman, described it as follows: “There were 37 men on the No. & (Continued on Page Three) --

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